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Integrate the Reddit API with the Python API
Setup the Reddit API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Python API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate Reddit and Python remarkably fast. Free for developers.
Popular Reddit and Python Triggers#
New comments on a post from the Reddit API
Emit new event each time a new comment is added to a subreddit.
New hot posts on a subreddit from the Reddit API
Emit new event each time a new hot post is added to the top 10 items in a subreddit.
New Links on a Subreddit from the Reddit API
Emit new event each time a new link is added to a subreddit
Popular Reddit and Python Actions#
Run Python Code with the Python API
Write Python and use any of the 350k+ PyPi packages available. Refer to the Pipedream Python docs to learn more.
List Subreddits by Query with the Reddit API
List subreddits based on a search criteria. See the docs here
Overview of Reddit#
- You could build a tool that monitors specific subreddits and notifies you
when new posts match certain criteria. - You could build a tool that analyzes the posts and comments in a given
subreddit to generate statistics or visualizations about the topic. - You could build a bot that automatically posts or comments in response to
certain keywords or phrases. - You could build a tool that helps manage your Reddit account by automating
tasks like posting, messaging, or voting. - You could build a tool that extracts data from Reddit posts and comments for
use in other applications.
Connect Reddit#
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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
props: {
reddit: {
type: "app",
app: "reddit",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
return await axios($, {
url: `https://oauth.reddit.com/api/v1/me`,
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer ${this.reddit.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
"User-Agent": `pipedream:v0.0.1 (by /u/pipedream-oauth)`,
},
})
},
})
Overview of Python#
Python API on Pipedream offers developers to build or automate a variety of
tasks from their web and cloud apps. With the Python API, users are able to
create comprehensive and flexible scripts, compose and manage environment
variables, and configure resources to perform a range of functions.
By using Pipedream, you can easily:
- Create automated workflows that run on a specific schedule
- Compose workflows across various apps and services
- React to events in cloud services or form data
- Automatically create content and notifications
- Construct classifications and predictions
- Analyze and react to sentiment, sentiment analysis and sentiment score
- Connect backends to the frontend with serverless functions
- Work with files and databases
- Perform web requests and fetch data
- Integrate third-party APIs into your apps
- Orchestrate data processing tasks and pipelines
- Create powerful application APIs with authentication and authorization
- Design CI/CD pipelines and Continuous Delivery services
- Connect databases like MongoDB and MySQL
- Monitor connections and events
- Generate alerts and notifications for corresponding events
Connect Python#
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def handler(pd: "pipedream"):
# Reference data from previous steps
print(pd.steps["trigger"]["context"]["id"])
# Return data for use in future steps
return {"foo": {"test":True}}Community Posts#
Building a Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Almost four years ago I blogged about a demo I built using Reddit's API. The demo was a multi-user application that made use of Mongo for persistence and Passport.js for user authentication. You would login, select subreddit's to subscribe to, and then once a day it would email you the new posts from that subreddit. This was built in a "traditional" Node.js style with a server running full time to process requests. I thought it would be fun to build this again (although slightly different) using Pipedream's support for working with the Reddit API. I built two different versions of a simple workflow I'd like to share below.
Updating my Reddit Workflow with Pipedream
Back almost exactly a month ago, I blogged about using Pipedream to build a Reddit email report. The idea was that I wanted a daily email of posts from my subscribed subreddits for the past 24 hours of content. The implementation was a bit complex. I used one workflow to handle "get a days worth of content from subreddit" as a general "API" and another workflow connected to my authentication. It handles getting my subscriptions, hitting the API, and then generating the email. This worked well, but after a while of actually getting the email, I noticed some problems. So I decided to fix that.